Blog Tipz

A recent update with how Twitter is displayed in search results as Your Name (Company/Site) will help more people be discovered when searching for other sites that you may author. This may come as a big bonus for you and your readers or anyone trying to research you, as the owner of blogs.

Let’s give a prime example of how this might work.

– Someone visits you blog but wants to know whether you have a Twitter account in order to subscribe to updates from you. They might try scouring all throughout you blog, but in the end, they waste time searching for a link that isn’t there. However, your name has been connected to your blog, so they use this as enter a parameter that will only find sites with Twitter as the address and your name as the username or as part of the page.

In this case, it became easy to find additional information about yourself (the owner 0f your blog) because you had connected the two forms of medium together. Had you chosen to use a completely different username or a different website connection, it would have been much more difficult to find you. For the most part, unless you run multiple completely separate blogs, associate your personal/business account with your sties. This adds some consistency, and that is what users look for.

Why Twitter is So Useful

As demonstrated in the example above, you can use Twitter to send out updates about the status of your blog and answer quick support and regular questions without opening up your email client and writing a new message for a simple question.

With more links appearing in search engines to the service, it will begin becoming easier to find other users and their updates, should they also be indexed. Not everyone will be indexed, and it could take time before you even see your account reach the first page of results for a more broad keyword found on your profile/account.

You can’t really compare Twitter to blogs when you look at them in this way – they are separate and were designed to be used for different purposes. You don’t have full control with Twitter and are limited on purpose, while you have much more freedom on your blog.

Why Pairing is Important

Think about your contact information on your blog. What if someone was unable to access this? They’d probably just dismiss the questions or comments that they were going to pose to you. They had no real method of contacting you so they had to go elsewhere, to another blog to express their thoughts.

A Twitter account can be referred to as another form of communication, much like emailing, instant messaging, or even calling someone. Leaving out a Twitter account (whenever you have one) form your blog is a costly mistake that should be avoided.

Recap

• Use similar user names for your blog and your profile/Twitter page.
• Link immensely to your Twitter profile from your blog to increase awareness.
• Don’t hesitate to ask people to contact you through Twitter rather than other methods.
• Use proper techniques to increase the ranking of your Twitter profile – include keywords in content, update often, and so on.
• Don’t let your Twitter page go blank or without updates.